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Burial ground

Montpelier, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Montpelier, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Montpelier
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisheen Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheen, Outlined (1938)
Coordinates
52.75282, -8.49153
SMR number
LI001-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland, 50m S of the River Shannon and 450m E of a castle (LI001-014----) and O'Brien's Bridge (LI001-005----/CL054-004----). The island of Inishlosky on which a church (CL054-007001-) and graveyard (CL054-007002-) stands lies 100m to NE. Oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 45m N-S x 27m E-W) annotated 'Lisheen Grave Yard' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map which is visible today as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. The enclosing element of the graveyard on the E side forms the townland boundary with Fairyhall.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 July 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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